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The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 47, Saturday, August 5, 1899 (open access)

The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 47, Saturday, August 5, 1899

Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements. This issue includes a report of a charity auction of a bale of Texas cotton to raise funds for flood victims.--[p.3]
Date: August 5, 1899
Creator: Ezzell, Frank
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 29, Ed. 1, Friday, August 5, 1892 (open access)

The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 29, Ed. 1, Friday, August 5, 1892

Daily (except Sunday) newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1892
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 30, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 5, 1893 (open access)

The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 30, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 5, 1893

Daily (except Sunday) newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1893
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 28, Ed. 1, Wednesday, August 5, 1896 (open access)

The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 28, Ed. 1, Wednesday, August 5, 1896

Daily (except Sunday) newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1896
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. XVTH YEAR, No. 123, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 5, 1899 (open access)

The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. XVTH YEAR, No. 123, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 5, 1899

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1899
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. TWELFTH YEAR, No. 123, Ed. 1, Wednesday, August 5, 1896 (open access)

The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. TWELFTH YEAR, No. 123, Ed. 1, Wednesday, August 5, 1896

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1896
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 297, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 5, 1890 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 297, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 5, 1890

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 294, Ed. 1, Wednesday, August 5, 1891 (open access)

Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 294, Ed. 1, Wednesday, August 5, 1891

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1891
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 262, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 5, 1893 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 262, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 5, 1893

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 255, Ed. 1, Sunday, August 5, 1894 (open access)

Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 255, Ed. 1, Sunday, August 5, 1894

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1894
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The San Saba County News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 38, Ed. 1, Friday, August 5, 1892 (open access)

The San Saba County News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 38, Ed. 1, Friday, August 5, 1892

Weekly newspaper from San Saba, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 35, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 5, 1897 (open access)

Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 35, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 5, 1897

Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1897
Creator: Rankin, John G.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 5, 1893 (open access)

The Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 5, 1893

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1893
Creator: Christopher, R.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Brownsville Daily Herald. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 28, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 5, 1897 (open access)

The Brownsville Daily Herald. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 28, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1897
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press. (open access)

Baling Press.

Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the horizontal driving-screw, the plunger, connections between the plunger and the screw, the endwise-moveable vertical shaft, gearing between the said shaft and the driving screw, the lever supporting said shaft, the [other] lever and the links connecting the [latter] lever with the [former] lever" (lines 33-39).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: Nelson, George A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design "relates particularly to a combined pipe and nut wrench, and has for its object to provide a wrench of the class described which can be quickly changed to an ordinary wrench . . . [the] invention consists of a shank having a rigid jaw attached thereto, a movable jaw adjustable on the shank and an eccentrically-headed lever pivoted to the rear end of the movable jaw and bearing on the shank adapted to separate the rear end of the movable jaw and said shank to throw the forward end of the movable jaw closer to the rigid jaw" (lines 7-22).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: Hooks, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design "has for its object to provide a tool especially adapted for a pipe-wrench, but also capable of use as a monkey-wrench. A further object of the invention is to construct a wrench with practically two handles, one of which is capable of use as a lever to disengage the jaws from the pipe and to adjust the upper jaw to and from the lower jaw" (lines 8-16).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: Kasch, Friedrich Wilhelm
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Velocipede. (open access)

Velocipede.

Patent for a new and improved velocipede. This design "has relation to that class of velocipedes in which the rider is suspended within a large wheel impelled by a frictional contact between the inner periphery of the same and the driving wheel" (lines 8-12). With this design, "by the increased size of wheel, not only is speed gained, but the same may be propelled with greater ease over rough or smooth roads and with greater comfort to the rider, in that the jolt is less, and yet at the same time all the benefits arising from this class of exercise are obtained" (lines 27-34).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: Akers, William P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate Latch. (open access)

Gate Latch.

Patent for a new and improved gate latch. This design consists in "[a] gate-latch comprising a slotted-sleeve, a pivoted and spring-actuated latch-plate, and a bolt mounted to turn in the latch-plate and extend through the sleeve, and provided with a transverse pin" (lines 98-102).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Riveting Machine. (open access)

Riveting Machine.

Patent for a new and improved riveting machine. This design "consist[s], essentially, of an upright-frame having a vertically-movable driving-rod therein, a vertically-separable set loosely mounted upon the lower end of the driving rod, and a stationary upright removably mounted in the frame beneath the driving-rod and set, [and] said upright having a spring-actuated sleeve extending above the upper end thereof" (lines 66-74).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: Carl, Reinhold A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Power Device for Baling Presses. (open access)

Power Device for Baling Presses.

Patent for a new and improved power device for baling presses. This design "relates to certain new and useful improvements in power devices for baling-presses of that class wherein is employed a disk rigidly fixed to the shaft of the crank and a disk loosely mounted on said shaft; and it has for its object to improve upon prior constructions of this character. [This design] hinge[s] the lugs on the loosely mounted disk, and, preferably, place a spring between the said lug and the disk, so that either the weight of the lug or the force of the spring will project or suspend the lug" (lines 13-24).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: Cass, Thomas M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Linter (open access)

Cotton-Seed Linter

Patent for an improvement "to prevent the accumulation of lint within the lint-chambers; to provide for the automatic discharge of the lint from the saw-teeth; to provide for a thorough agitation of the seed within the seed-reviews, and, finally, to provide for the delivery of the stripped seed from the machine" (lines 12-19).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: O'Brien, Edward J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Caldwell News-Chronicle (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, August 5, 1898 (open access)

The Caldwell News-Chronicle (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, August 5, 1898

Weekly newspaper from Caldwell, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 5, 1898
Creator: Rust & Joiner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1897 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1897

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1897
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History